Saturday, 28 April 2012

Skin Welding

The largest organ in your body is your skin. It
wraps around your skeleton in a seamless weave of cells that protect your inner
organs. At Feathercraft, we wanted to replicate the same seamless
characteristics in the design of our boats. Fabric welding technology has
allowed us the opportunity to create an exterior skin that eliminates water
seepage completely.

The outer skin of our kayaks is made of two
parts: the deck and the hull. In the past, Feathercraft stitched the Cordura
deck layer to the hull.

With the advancement of urethane fabrics, we
are now able to weld our Duratek hull layer to a polytech deck layer, using
radio frequency welding technology.

Radio frequency welding joins polyurethane
fabrics by exciting the molecules and creating a permanent bond. This bond acts
like a gasket creating a water-tight seal between the two fabrics.

The end result is an exterior skin that is
completely waterproof. Pretty amazing eh?!?!